Smalltalk in an Autonomous Ground Vehicle -- A New
Direction
presentation
Hylands, Jon:
Tuesday 10:30 am to 11:15 am
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles are an emerging technology
that are ideally suited for exploration, reconnaissance,
inspection, and monitoring. The software required to successfully
pilot an autonomous vehicle must be very robust, capable of complex
behaviors, and also be easy to maintain and extend. Smalltalk fits
the bill on all of these requirements.
This demo will show Orion, a simple hobby-level autonomous
ground vehicle built by the presenter's brother, with the
high-level "brain" of the system running in Squeak Smalltalk on an
embedded Linux single-board computer. The autonomous controller for
this vehicle can also control many other autonomous vehicles,
including MicroSeeker, the presenter's autonomous underwater
vehicle. Orion is being built to compete in the RoboMagellan
compeition held by the Seattle Robotics Society in September.
Bio: Jon Hylands has been doing Smalltalk programming
since 1987. Jon's main interests include hobby robotics and
autonomous submersibles, and making Smalltalk work on embedded
devices.
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